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  • As Marx said, faith in God too often becomes a way for people to abnegate our responsibility, deny our power and become passive in the face of a sacrosanct status quo. Philocrites: Back to the reverence debate!
  • The judge was making the point that the Pledge, in its current incarnation, is only about 50 – 60 years old and that the language “under God” was inserted at a particular time in response to concerns of that time and that the Pledge is not some sacrosanct invocation from the founders. The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Reinhardt’s Dig on Sarah Palin
  • Peace processes thus become sacrosanct and must be kept going at all costs. Times, Sunday Times
  • If something in science suddenly becomes so sacrosanct that you can't question it, then it ceases to be science.
  • Will we be accused of living in Utopia by asking if there is anything sacrosanct and inviolable anymore?
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  • So the Senate rule that liberals fulminated against for decades has become sacrosanct.
  • They have been treated as sacrosanct, even though they are the moneybags behind the global scheme.
  • It was a strict upbringing in which rules were sacrosanct, orders were obeyed without question and everyone knew their place.
  • Worse still, some practices which Sacrosanctum Concilium had never even contemplated were allowed into the Liturgy, like Mass “versus populum”, Holy Communion on the hand, altogether giving up on the Latin and Gregorian Chant in favour of the vernacular and songs and hymns without much space for God, and extension beyond any reasonable limits of the faculty to concelebrate at Holy Mass. Archbishop Ranjith's Foreword to "True Development of the Liturgy"
  • Preservation advocate Christabel Gough of the Society for the Architecture of the City told the Landmarks Restoration Commission last year that the towers 'roofscape "should be sacrosanct under the landmarks law. Elizabeth Sargent, Last Carnegie Hall Towers Resident, Kicked Out
  • On the other, I find it somewhat disenchanting that something so frightening and sacrosanct can be achieved and nullified by such relatively simple means. Overlooked Movie Monday: Near Dark » Scene-Stealers
  • The principle of maintaining the territorial integrity of states remained sacrosanct.
  • The judge was making the point that the Pledge, in its current incarnation, is only about 50 – 60 years old and that the language “under God” was inserted at a particular time in response to concerns of that time and that the Pledge is not some sacrosanct invocation from the founders. The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Reinhardt’s Dig on Sarah Palin
  • Reid notes that Sacrosanctum Concilium identifies a number of very sound liturgical principles, such as the idea that the liturgy is “culmen et fons” (source and summit); the principle (whose source is to be found in the teaching of St. Pius X) surrounding “actuosa participatio” (active or actual participation); it also generally sought to promote a liturgical piety, taking its cues from the 20th century Liturgical Movement. Dr. Alcuin Reid at the Toronto Oratory
  • My aim is to provoke a debate on a sacrosanct subject that has remained undebatable for far too long.
  • Government officials say that the independence of the bank will remain sacrosanct. Times, Sunday Times
  • Pangsapa was a narcotics contrabandist and would therefore know people who were prepared to kill for a fix of snow, or who were prepared to expose the most sacrosanct confidences of friends and inform on them. The 9th Directive
  • In pressing for the change, Mr. Villaraigosa took on a law considered sacrosanct in state politics, and as antitax sentiment is high nationwide. Los Angeles Mayor Urges End to Tax Limits for Businesses
  • In the eighteenth century, Presidents Washington and Jefferson of the United States had the wisdom to reverse the case for ‘democracy’ leading to most people being fuzzily convinced that democracy is sacrosanct.
  • The rites employed among the clam-diggers on the New York coast, the witch-charms they use, the incantations, cutting of flesh, fire-oblations, meaningless formulae, united with sacrosanct expressions of the church, are all on a par with the religion of the lower classes as depicted in Theocritus and the Atharvan. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow
  • His speeches could go on for hours and caused great disruption to what were seen to be the sacrosanct ways of Westminster.
  • Alterum, quod et cumprimis desidero, et maximi momenti esse arbitror, ut mihi liceat in consessu doctorum, magistorum et utriusque Academiae virorum insignium, sacrosanctae theologiae professorum, verba facere. Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities
  • The notion of civil law is the supreme value and tenet of civil law , which includes sacrosanctity of private right and autonomy of private law .
  • Sylvia's position and outlook from this level then, I thrust my way through what I impatiently dismissed as the "flummery"; by which I meant the poetry, the picturesqueness, the sacrosanct glamour surrounding his The Message
  • Hollywood was strangely unsentimental about its own history: costumes that would now be considered sacrosanct were frequently cut up and used to mop floors. Times, Sunday Times
  • Two concepts were sacrosanct: that tax cuts would be self-financing, and financial markets self-regulating. Times, Sunday Times
  • What is innate and unfolds from inside of us is pushed onto some great godlike figure of the past whose legacy is tightly held in the keep of the institution and its hierarchy in the form of a creed or orthodoxy that is sacrosanct.
  • The musicians, guided by ever more extensive musicological research in the ‘early music’ movement, treat the composer's score as sacrosanct and attempt a high degree of authenticity in its interpretation.
  • * Cum et tempora totius spei fida sunt sacrosancto stilo, ne liceat eam ante constitui quam in adventum, opinor, Christi, vota nostra suspirant in saeculi huius occasum, in transitum mundi quoque ad diem domini magnum, diem irae et retributionis. The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries
  • He is present in the sacrifice of the Mass, not only in the person of His minister, ‘the same now offering, through the ministry of priests, who formerly offered himself on the cross,’ but especially under the eucharistic species (Sacrosanctum Concilium, 7). The Knights of the Holy Eucharist
  • The principle of individual user autonomy was sacrosanct in the day centres generally and the Contact group in particular.
  • What he meant, and what Mademoiselle Valle knew he meant -- also what he knew she knew he meant -- was that a woman, who was a heartless fool, without sympathy or perception, would not have the delicacy to feel that the girl must be shielded, and might actually see a sort of ghastly joke in a story of Mademoiselle Valle's sacrosanct charge simply walking out of her enshrining arms into such a "galere" as the most rackety and adventurous of pupils could scarcely have been led into. The Head of the House of Coombe
  • a _jugum_ [= jugerum, about two-thirds of an English acre] of land so bestowed on the "sacrosanct" Church has been taken away from her, and is unlawfully held by the despoiler. The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator
  • How much of the post – Conciliar liturgical reform truly reflects “Sacrosanctum Concilium”, the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on Sacred Liturgy is a question that has often been debated in ecclesial circles ever since the Consilium ad Exsequendam Constitutionem de Sacra Liturgia finished its work. Archbishop Ranjith's Foreword to "True Development of the Liturgy"
  • The problem is the way these are disrupting habits you think of as sacrosanct and upsetting relations with loved ones. Times, Sunday Times
  • The principle of democracy is sacrosanct, but it will always be interpreted through cultural filters.
  • The point of departure and arrival is the conciliar Constitution on the Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium. Tornielli: The "Reform of the Reform" Proposals Approved by the Pope
  • Restoration Commission last year that the towers 'roofscape "should be sacrosanct under the landmarks law. Fore, right!
  • Projects have become sacrosanct, along with the target of spending 0.7 per cent of gross domestic product. Times, Sunday Times
  • In India, the cow is a sacrosanct animal.
  • That does not make monuments sacrosanct (you will search in vain for a German military cemetery with a swastika).
  • Our words were supposedly sacrosanct offerings in privacy of a makeshift shrine on the overbridge between the library and the student union. Archive 2008-06-01
  • It was understood equipment and shooting techniques would evolve, but the principles were sacrosanct.
  • Religion is an intensely personal matter and is as sacrosanct as chastity.
  • Peace processes thus become sacrosanct and must be kept going at all costs. Times, Sunday Times
  • In principle there seems little reason to regard the Internet as sacrosanct, one network that is necessarily free of taxation.
  • The pharaoh was a sacrosanct monarch who served as the intermediary between the gods and man.
  • Hollywood was strangely unsentimental about its own history: costumes that would now be considered sacrosanct were frequently cut up and used to mop floors. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sovereignty has long been a sacrosanct principle in the international system.
  • Once crowned, his position had divine sanction, was regarded by the church as sacrosanct, and so was considerably strengthened.
  • Then, having made the case that the Tea Partiers are deficit stalwarts, Hulse pivots seamlessly to say: "The clout of the freshmen and other House conservatives was clearly seen in the decision by Speaker John A. Boehner to pull back from trying to reach a sweeping deficit deal that would have taken new revenue while tinkering with Bush-era tax cuts that many House Republicans hold sacrosanct. Jonathan Weiler: New York Times Acts as Press Secretary for House GOP Freshmen in Deficit Fight
  • Used extensively as the wonky good-time background music to a thousand TV clips this summer it's undoubtedly effective and known to millions, but adds absolutely nothing to the sacrosanct original.
  • The growth dogma is the holiest of holies and occupies a completely sacrosanct, inviolable political zone that no politician would dare trespass upon. Keith Harrington: No Balanced Budget Without Independence From Wall Street
  • In Islam the text of the Quran is completely sacrosanct as well. David Shasha: Monolingualism, Scriptural Translation and the Problem of Western Civilization
  • It could stay holy, sacrosanct, totally uncorrupted and virginal if it wasn't for us humans washing everything over with arrogance.
  • The advocates of Centralism use narrow, sacrosanct criteria in shaping how to organize.
  • Yes, we had to slash into sacrosanct areas like health care to save the country.
  • Even the previously sacrosanct "first responders" police and firefighters are being downsized, laid off, "furloughed," or forced out with early retirement. Joseph A. Palermo: There's No Good News for Democrats Because There's No Good News
  • Once crowned, his position had divine sanction, was regarded by the church as sacrosanct, and so was considerably strengthened.
  • These are hands-off, no-go, sacrosanct areas that the British prime minister cannot afford to have tampered with.
  • The cultural boycott of Ariel seeks to penalize spaces which should remain sacrosanct, and devoid of political positioning. Qanta Ahmed, MD: Collateral Damage: The Hidden Costs of the Ariel Boycott
  • He held the sacrosanct position of a squarson, being at once Squire and Parson of the parish of Little Wentley. The Mark Of Cain
  • Long gone are the days when this flag carrier was considered so sacrosanct its planes were blessed by priests on the tarmac before departure.
  • The problem is the way these are disrupting habits you think of as sacrosanct and upsetting relations with loved ones. Times, Sunday Times
  • For her, as for much of the Scottish educational establishment, the comprehensive system is sacrosanct.
  • There is an understanding that the hearth and home are sacrosanct to the family, and that is why I think those confiscations were such an unhappy time in our history.
  • I was a staunch supporter of Obama but now I have to wonder how someone who proclaims that Israel's security is sacrosanct tries to force Israel to commit "harakiri". Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • The Apollo piano reduction is by Stravinsky himself, so the notes are sacrosanct, Matjias says.
  • The decision-making is bedevilled by what Financial Times columnist Philip Stephens calls "reverse nimbyism", which "decrees the NHS offers an 'everything everywhere' service and local hospitals are deemed sacrosanct". Radical change in the NHS is essential
  • Environmentalism has become a sacrosanct religion of which no questions can even be asked.
  • If the dendro readings are crap now, why do we consider them sacrosanct from the because they are old? Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Climate Updates
  • The problem is the way these are disrupting habits you think of as sacrosanct and upsetting relations with loved ones. Times, Sunday Times
  • Coombs was a relic of an earlier, gentler time, when the privacy of public officials (even politicians) was normally regarded as sacrosanct.
  • Some practices which Sacrosanctum Concilium had never even contemplated were allowed into the Liturgy, like Mass versus populum, Holy Communion in the hand, altogether giving up on the Latin and Gregorian Chant in favor of the vernacular and songs and hymns without much space for God, and extension beyond any reasonable limits of the faculty to concelebrate at Holy Mass. Clear Words of Msgr Ranjith on the Flaws of the Postconciliar Liturgical Reforms and the Need for a Reform of the Reform
  • No principle or vision is sacrosanct in Washington except its own security and self-interest.
  • Political parties are not sacrosanct organisations that bend to the whims of their votaries. Times, Sunday Times
  • Because these proposals struck at rights that businessmen considered sacrosanct, many congressmen balked. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
  • Senator-elect Rand Paul has challenged the notion of sacrosanct programs, by suggesting instead that a 5% cut should be applied across the board. David Paul: Tea Party Republicans Should Tackle Federal Role in Distorting Markets and Causing Bubbles.
  • If a mistake is reprinted often enough, it becomes sacrosanct - no one questions it, no one verifies it.
  • Once upon a time Sunday mornings were sacrosanct times for public worship.
  • A marriage before God is a sacrosanct thing, an act of union in the eyes of God, irreversible and permanent.
  • Turning our attention toward the liturgical arts, it may be helpful in rounding out our considerations of what might constitute noble simplicity to recall that Sacrosanctum Concilum also speaks of the sacred arts being characterized by a "noble beauty. Noble Simplicity and the Liturgiologist Edmund Bishop
  • History is taking a beating and sacrosanct tour records are being kept in pencil.
  • The 10 Commandments of Gun Safety remain sacrosanct, and you should school young shooters on every one of them. Kid-Friendly Tips for Making Target Shooting Fun
  • It's whether the indignance of the devout is valid in the ethos I'm ascribing to Art, whether Art itself accepts the sacrosanct status of religious symbols, whether Art respects or disrespects those claims. Archive 2006-09-01
  • The issue is one of property rights which, in every capitalist society, are both valuable and sacrosanct.
  • Royalty is accorded less respect and marriage is no longer regarded as sacrosanct.
  • After all, what is so sacrosanct about first-order predicate logic in its standard form?
  • Any critiques on the work of Etruscologists are hard to come by, yet there are many valid reasons to question this and many other sacrosanct translations based on linguistical grounds. Archive 2007-03-01
  • Striving for the truth, doing goodness, perfection, universal love and sacrosanctity are the highest level of humanistic spirit, principles and goals of practicing medicine.
  • Europeans were more likely to treat infrastructure as sacrosanct, while the U.S. was only too happy to monkey with GPS for tactical reasons.
  • The new regimen Sunday supper is sacrosanct. Times, Sunday Times
  • Basic human decency and respect for the dead as well as for the feelings of their grieving loved ones should guarantee that burial places are sacrosanct.
  • There are certain days within the calendar year that certainly are sacrosanct.
  • The decision-making is bedevilled by what Financial Times columnist Philip Stephens calls "reverse nimbyism", which "decrees the NHS offers an 'everything everywhere' service and local hospitals are deemed sacrosanct". Radical change in the NHS is essential
  • Nor are the Democrats saying that every jot and tittle of all its complex tables of inflows and outflows are sacrosanct today.
  • Peace processes thus become sacrosanct and must be kept going at all costs. Times, Sunday Times
  • Freedom of the press is sacrosanct.
  • The principle of maintaining the territorial integrity of states remained sacrosanct.
  • There is something sacrosanct about the relationship between owner and dog. FRIENDS FOR LIFE
  • You justly resent intrusion into what you consider sacrosanct headspace.
  • When the first course was taken off, the females melodiously sung us an epode in the praise of the sacrosanct decretals; and then the second course being served up, Homenas, joyful and cheery, said to one of the she-butlers, Light here, Clerica. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • At the end of the case, Justice Lloyd said wilderness is sacrosanct.
  • What a hoot to hear pundits who defended federally-subsidized Wall Street bonus contracts as sacrosanct now blithely calling for the abolishment of collective bargaining contracts for teachers. Craig Crawford: Greedy Teachers?
  • The principle of individual user autonomy was sacrosanct in the day centres generally and the Contact group in particular.
  • Indeed, sports budgets seem to be sacrosanct, elevated to more importance than labs and textbooks.
  • Hollywood was strangely unsentimental about its own history: costumes that would now be considered sacrosanct were frequently cut up and used to mop floors. Times, Sunday Times
  • But on the field, something sacrosanct remains. Times, Sunday Times

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